Forber Bakery makes baked goods for grocery stores, and has three divisions: bread, cake, and doughnuts. Each division is run and evaluated separately, but the main headquarters incurs costs

that are indirect costs for the divisions.

$($Click to view information for each division and the main headquarters.$)$

Read the requirements.

Requirement $1.$ Allocate the indirect costs of Forber to each division equally. Calculate division operatir

or parentheses.$)$

Requirement $2.$ Allocate headquarter costs to the individual divisions using the proposed allocation bas

three decimal places. Enter operating losses with minus signs or parentheses.$)$

Data table

Costs incurred in the main headquarters are as follows:

The Forber upper management currently allocates this cost to the divisions equally. One

division managers has done some research on activity$-$based costing and proposes the

different allocation bases for the different indirect costs $-$ number of employees for HR c

total revenues for accounting department costs, square feet of space for rent and

depreciation costs, and equal allocation among the divisions of "other" costs. Informatio

the three divisions follows: